Quotes About Gigging

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.

I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

I learned everything from my friends and just constant gigging in night clubs, eight sets a night!

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.

I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London in 1979. That led on to me presenting a show in the early days of Channel 4 called 'Whatever You Want,' which had live music and sketches.

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.